Obituaries from January 2009

Thomas Earl Trout(01/29/09)PUXICO - Due to the weather the services for Thomas Earl Trout have been rescheduled. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday in the Watkins & Sons Chapel in Dexter, Missouri. Interment will be at 2:00 PM on Friday at the Missouri Veteran's Cemetery in Bloomfield under the direction of Watkins and Sons Chapel at Dexter...

Joyce Sims(01/29/09)CHAFFEE - Joyce H. Bevenue Sims, 78, died Jan. 26, 2009, at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 4, 1930, in Kaskaskia, Ill., to the late Henry L. and Myrtle A. Russell Bevenue. She was married to William L. Sims, who preceded her in death...

Leon Schmitt(01/29/09)CHAFFEE - Leon Schmitt died Jan. 29, 2009.
Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements which are incomplete.

Brenda Wicks(01/29/09)NEW MADRID - Brenda Wicks died Jan. 29, 2009, at her home in New Madrid.
Richards Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements are incomplete.

Ansley Stapleton(01/27/09)SIKESTON -- Ansley Waller Stapleton, 19 months, died Jan. 26, 2009, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston from complications of an extended illness. She was born June 19, 2007, in Atlanta, daughter of Jessica Waller of Sikeston and Ted Stapleton of Atlanta...

Melissa Norton(01/27/09)RALEIGH, N.C. -- Melissa Norton, 42, died at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 26, 2009, at the Rex Hospital in Raleigh.
Arrangements are incomplete with Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie.

Don Taylor(01/26/09)DEXTER -- Don Taylor, 95, died Jan. 24, 2009, at the Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter. Funeral arrangements are with the Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Dexter. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Thomas Earl Trout(01/26/09)DEXTER -- Thomas Earl Trout, 78, died Jan. 24, 2009, at the Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are with the Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Puxico. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Buddy Gowan(01/26/09)NEW MADRID -- Harold "Buddy" Gowan, 78, died Jan. 24, 2009, at New Madrid. Funeral arrangements are with the DeLisle Funeral Home in Portageville. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Mildred Marble(01/26/09)FRANKSTON, Texas -- Mildred Marble, 88 passed away Jan. 23, 2009. Funeral arrangements are with the Burks Walker Tippit Funeral Home in Tyler. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Rick Conner(01/26/09)DEXTER -- Rick Conner, 61, died Jan. 24, 2009, at the Landmark Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are with the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Midge Davis(01/26/09)CHAFFEE -- Mildred "Midge" Davis, 95, died at 3:55 p.m. Jan. 24, 2009, at the Chaffee Nursing Center. Funeral arrangements are with the Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Brenda Sutton(01/25/09)PORTAGEVILLE -- Brenda Sutton, 55, died Jan. 18, 2009. Funeral arrangements are with Richards Funeral Home of New Madrid. --- For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Leigh Ann Brashear(01/25/09)SIKESTON -- Leigh Ann Allen Brashear, 31, died at 8:27 p.m. Jan. 20, 2009, near Miner. Funeral arrangements are with Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. --- For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Glen W. Slusher(01/25/09)BENTON -- Glen W. Slusher, 78, died Jan. 22, 2009, at his home near Benton.
Funeral arrangements are with the Ponder Funeral Home.
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Bonnie Mooring(01/25/09)LILBOURN -- Bonnie Jean Mooring, 75, died Jan. 22, 2009, in Lilbourn. Funeral arrangements are with the Richards Funeral Home in Lilbourn. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Glen W. Slusher(01/23/09)BENTON -- Glen W. Slusher, 78, died Jan. 22, 2009, at his home near Benton. Funeral arrangements are with the Ponder Funeral Home. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Wilma Grim(01/23/09)BLOOMFIELD -- Wilma Ruth Grim, 91, died Jan. 21, 2009, at the Missouri Southern Healthcare in Dexter. Funeral arrangements are with the Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Dexter. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Bobby Williford(01/23/09)HERRIN, Ill. -- Bobby Dennis Williford, 64, died at 11:35 p.m. Jan. 18, 2009, at the V.A. Medical Center in Marion. Funeral arrangements are with the Meredith-Waddell Funeral Home in Herrin. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

MeLena Broglin(01/23/09)ST. LOUIS -- MeLena Zerlinda Broglin, 31, of St. Louis died Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009, in St. Louis. Funeral arrangements are with the Ford & Sons Funeral Home. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Elsie Lutes(01/23/09)MOREHOUSE -- Elsie Lutes, 81, died Jan. 22, 2009, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Funeral arrangements are with the Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Bill Bryant(01/23/09)MOREHOUSE -- Bill Bryant, 74, died Jan. 21, 2009, at his home. Funeral arrangements are with the Ponder Funeral Home. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Paul Glaus Sr.(01/23/09)SIKESTON -- Paul D. "P.D." Glaus Sr., 66, died Jan. 20, 2009, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Funeral arrangements are with the Ponder Funeral Home. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Richard L. Bennett(01/23/09)EAST PRAIRIE -- Richard L. Bennett, 82, died at 10:10 a.m. Jan. 22, 2009, in the Charleston Manor. Funeral arrangements are with the Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Shirley Mitchell(01/22/09)CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Shirley Jean Mitchell, 76, died Jan. 21, 2009, at The Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are with the Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Puxico. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Evelyn Shannon(01/22/09)COLUMBIA -- Evelyn Neal Shannon, 57, died Jan. 18, 2009, at the University of Missouri Hospital in Columbia. Funeral arrangements are with the Richards Funeral Home in New Madrid. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Donna Cox(01/22/09)POPLAR BLUFF -- Donna Cox, 52, died Jan. 20, 2009, at Doctors Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Funeral arrangements are with the Ponder Funeral Home. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Lee Ann Brashear(01/22/09)SIKESTON -- Lee Ann Allen Brashear, 31, died at 8:27 p.m. Jan. 20, 2009, near Miner. Funeral arrangements are with the Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Charles Arington(01/22/09)ST. LOUIS -- Charles E. Arington passed away Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009, with his family by his side following a brief but valiant battle with cancer. Funeral arrangements are with the Kutis South County Chapel in St. Louis. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Robert Plummer(01/22/09)DEXTER -- Pallbearers for services conducted on Wednesday at the Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Dexter for Robert Plummer, 88, who died on Jan. 18, 2009, were: Robert W. Plummer, Brian Stacy, Dakota Sanders and Dustin Hopkins.

Paul Glaus Sr.(01/22/09)SIKESTON -- Paul D. "P.D." Glaus Sr., 66, died Jan. 20, 2009, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Funeral arrangements are with the Ponder Funeral Home in Sikeston. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

John Harmon(01/22/09)NEW MADRID -- John Dee Harmon, 88, died Jan. 20, 2009, at the John J. Pershing Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Funeral arrangements are with the DeLisle Funeral Home in Portageville. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

John Harmon(01/21/09)NEW MADRID -- John Dee Harmon, 88, died Jan. 20, 2009, at John J. Pershing VA Center in Poplar Bluff. Funeral arrangements are with the DeLisle Funeral Home in Portageville. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Cord Dooley(01/21/09)PORTAGEVILLE -- Cord W. Dooley, 47, died Jan. 19, 2009, at his home in Portageville. Funeral arrangements are with the DeLisle Funeral Home in Portageville. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Donna Cox(01/21/09)SIKESTON - Donna Cox, 51, died at Jan. 20, 2009, at Doctors Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Funeral arrangements are with the Ponder Funeral Home. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Paul Glaus Sr.(01/21/09)SIKESTON -- Paul D. "P.D." Glaus Sr., 66, died of injuries sustained in an automobile accident Jan. 20, 2009, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are with the Ponder Funeral Home. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Larry Hart(01/21/09)CHARLESTON -- Larry Hart, 63, died at 3:48 a.m. Jan. 20, 2009, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are with the McMikle Funeral Home. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Ronnie Stanford(01/21/09)DEXTER -- Ronnie Lee Stanford, 62, died Jan. 19, 2009, at Missouri Southern Healthcare in Dexter. Funeral arrangements are with the Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Dexter. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Herbert St. Mary(01/21/09)SIKESTON -- Herbert Lee St. Mary, 73, died Jan. 20, 2009, at his home in Sikeston. Funeral arrangements are with the Ponder Funeral Home. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Garmelia Goss(01/21/09)SIKESTON -- Garmelia Goss, 86, died Jan. 17, 2009, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Funeral arrangements are with the Williams Funeral Home of Sikeston. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Robert Midkiff Sr.(01/20/09)DEXTER -- Robert Don Midkiff Sr., 60, died Jan. 19, 2009, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are with the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Martin Passley(01/20/09)BERNIE -- Martin L. Passley, 77, died Jan. 17, 2009, at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. Funeral arrangements are with the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Tempie Morton(01/20/09)COLUMBIA -- Tempie Mae Owens Morton, 81, died Jan. 17, 2009, at her home. Funeral arrangements are with the Memorial Funeral Home in Columbia. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Doug Reynolds(01/20/09)BENTON -- Warren Boone "Doug" Reynolds, 85, formerly of Charleston, died Jan. 18, 2009, at his daughter's home near Benton. Funeral arrangements are with the McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Shirley Wamble(01/20/09)PEVELY -- Shirley B. Wamble, 70, died Jan. 16, 2009, at her home. Funeral arrangements are with the Vinyard Hillcrest Funeral Home in Pevely. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Ronnie Jackson(01/20/09)CAPE GIRARDEAU -- James "Ronnie" Jackson, 56, died at 7:50 a.m. Jan. 17, 2009, at his home. Funeral arrangements are with the Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Buster Plummer(01/20/09)BLOOMFIELD -- Robert "Buster" Plummer, 88, formerly of Dexter, died Jan. 18, 2009, at his daughter's home in Dexter. Funeral arrangements are with the Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Dexter. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Luther Van Cleve II(01/20/09)KATY, Texas -- Luther Ballard Van Cleve II, 68, died Jan. 15, 2009, at St. Catherine Hospital in Katy. Funeral arrangements are with the Bradshaw Chapel in Malden. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Richard Caldwell(01/20/09)DEXTER -- Richard Caldwell, 82, died Jan. 17, 2009, in the Golden Living Center at Dexter. Funeral arrangements are with the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Delores Sanders(01/20/09)SIKESTON -- Delores Anna Sanders, 81, died Jan. 17, 2009, at the Miner Nursing Center. Funeral arrangements are with the Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Mary Beth Smith(01/20/09)HOLCOMB -- Mary Beth Smith, 64, died Jan. 17, 2009. Funeral arrangements are with the McDaniel Funeral Service of Kennett. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Nadine Simonson(01/20/09)NEW MADRID -- Nadine Clark Simonson, 80, died Jan. 16, 2009, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are with the Richards Funeral Home of New Madrid. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Marian Ferrell(01/20/09)SIKESTON - Marian Kathryn Ferrell, 90, died Jan. 18, 2009, at the Clearview Nursing and Rehab Center in Sikeston. Funeral arrangements are with the Ponder Funeral Home. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Herbert St. Mary(01/20/09)SIKESTON - Herbert L. St. Mary, 73, died Jan. 20, 2009, at his home in Sikeston
Ponder Funeral Home in Sikeston is in charge arrangements, which are incomplete.

MeLena Broglin(01/20/09)ST. LOUIS -- MeLena Zerlinda Broglin, 31, died Jan. 15, 2009 in St. Louis. Funeral arrangements are with Ford & Sons Mt. Auburn Funeral Home. For the complete obituary and more stories from the Standard Democrat, click here to log on to the electronic edition...

Larry Hart(01/20/09)CHARLESTON - Larry Hart, 63, died at 3:48 a.m. Jan. 20, 2009, at the Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.
McMikle Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements, which are incomplete.

Keith Taylor(01/18/09)MORLEY -- Keith Taylor, 56, died Jan. 16, 2009, in a truck accident outside his home. Born Sept. 12, 1952, at Parma, son of the late C.B. and Hazel Lee Hensley Taylor Sr., he was a mechanic at Heartland Application in Grant City. He was a member of Morley Baptist Church...

Helen Welker(01/18/09)PERRYVILLE -- Helen C. Schott Welker, 93, died Jan. 15, 2009, at her home in Perryville. Born June 6, 1915, in Perry County, daughter of the late Joseph and Theresia Sauer Buchheit, she was a seamstress at Ollie Moore Dress Factory and was a housekeeper for St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Perryville. A member of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, she also belonged to the Ladies Sodality...

Bennie Plunk(01/18/09)CAMPBELL -- Bennie Leon Plunk, 63, died Jan. 15, 2009, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born June 30, 1945, at Toccopola, Miss., to the late George Edward Plunk and Vallie Louise Snider Plunk Inmon, he had been employed at Noranda Aluminum. He was a U.S. Navy veteran serving during the Vietnam War and a member of the American Legion in Malden...

Tommy Bonds(01/18/09)MOREHOUSE -- Tommy Bonds, 77, died Jan. 16, 2009, at his home. Born Nov. 22, 1931, in Clinton, Ark., to the late Mae Bonds, he was a self-employed farmer. On Oct. 4, 1952, in Piggott, Ark., he married Melba Davis, who survives of the home. Other survivors include: one son and daughter-in-law, Wade and Rhonda Bonds of Sikeston; one daughter and son-in-law, Joy and Jim Taylor of Morehouse; two sisters, Audene Farmer of Oroville, Wash., and Syble Thompson of Shafter, Calif.; one granddaughter, Malena Bonds; one stepgrandson, Chris Taylor; and one great-stepgrandson, Kyle Taylor.. ...

Bob Nally(01/16/09)WYATT -- Robert Ray "Bob" Nally, 70, died at 9:27 a.m. Jan. 15, 2009, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Born June 11, 1938, in State Park Place, Ill., to the late William Robert and Doris Nell Campbell Nally, he grew up around Greenville, Ill., then moved to Wyatt. ...

Claude Chatman(01/16/09)EAST PRAIRIE -- Claude Ellis Chatman, 78, died at 5:30 a.m. Jan. 15, 2009, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Born Nov. 24, 1930, in Terre Haute, Ind., to the late Oscar James and Nettie Elizabeth Fields Chatman, he lived most his life in Mississippi County. He retired from Missouri Delta Medical Center, where he worked in the maintenance department, and was a U.S. Army veteran serving during the Korean War...

Virginia Mansfield(01/16/09)ST. LOUIS -- Virginia Mae Wilson Mansfield, 84, formerly of East Prairie, died at 7 a.m. Jan. 15, 2009, at her home. Born July 1, 1924, in Mississippi County, to the late John and Ethel Neely Wilson, she lived in St. Louis for the past several years. She was of the Baptist belief...

Gladys Duncan(01/16/09)CHARLESTON -- Gladys N. Duncan, 90, died Jan. 14, 2009, at the Charleston Manor. Born Oct. 26, 1918, at Reed Springs, to the late Monroe and Bessie Smythe, she had lived most of her life in Scott and Mississippi County. She was a member of the Church of Christ in Charleston and had been a volunteer at the Charleston Nutrition Center...

Ralph Lingle(01/15/09)DOGWOOD -- Ralph Thomas Lingle Sr., 81, died at 4:40 a.m. Jan. 14, 2009, at his home. Born March 22, 1927, in Charleston, to the late Rollie Virgil and Myrtle M. Golightly Lingle, he had lived in Mississippi County his entire life and was a member of the First Christian Church in East Prairie. ...

Carol Sue Eads(01/15/09)BERNIE -- Carol Sue Eads, 43, died Jan. 14, 2009, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born April 28, 1965, at Poplar Bluff, to John and Florence Willard of Bernie, she had been an EMT, had worked for several years in home health and was of the Baptist belief...

Garland Newingham(01/15/09)RISCO -- James Garland Newingham, 59, died Jan. 13, 2009, at the Gideon Care Center. Born Feb. 28, 1949, in Poplar Bluff, to Camille Mitchell Newingham of Risco and the late James Evert Newingham, he was a member of the First Baptist Church in Risco, the Four Mile Lodge in Campbell and the New Madrid Order of Eastern Star No. 293...

Linda Spitler(01/14/09)NEW MADRID -- Linda Ellen Spitler, 61, died Jan. 12, 2009, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Born Dec. 21, 1947, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of the late Theon and Cornetta Seyer, she was a member of Beta Sigma Phi and Tri Delta, Bridge Club and secretary for the Immaculate Conception Catholic School Board in New Madrid for many years. ...

Gladys Sadler(01/14/09)DEXTER -- Gladys Faye Sadler, 88, died Jan. 12, 2009, at at the Henry County Medical Center in Paris, Tenn. Born Feb. 26, 1920, in El Dorado, Ill., daughter of the late George Crowe and Izora Wells Crowe, she was a former machine operator with Elders Manufacturing in Bloomfield, former employee of Simpson Oil Co. ...

Mildred Richardson(01/14/09)FLORA, Ind. -- Mildred Jo Richardson, 82, died at 3:20 a.m. Jan. 11, 2009, at her home in Flora.
Visitation is from 4 p.m. to until service time at 8 p.m. Friday at Stout and Son Funeral Home in Russiaville, Ind.

Benzle Volz(01/14/09)DEXTER -- Benzle L. Volz, 86, died Jan. 12, 2009, at Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter. Born Nov. 16, 1922, in Bernie, son of the late John E. Volz and Effie McMann Volz, he was a former forklift operator for Triangle Terminal Warehouse in St. Louis and a veteran of the United States Army...

Ralph Lingle(01/14/09)DOGWOOD -- Ralph Lingle, 81, died at 4:40 a.m. Jan.14, 2009, at his home near the Dogwood Community.
Arrangements are incomplete at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.

Robert E. Meyer(01/13/09)SIKESTON -- Robert Edward Meyer, 83, died at 7 p.m. Jan. 11, 2009, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born Oct. 13, 1925, in Cape Girardeau, to the late Charles H.W. and Cora Margaret Bingenheimer Meyer, he was a 1943 graduate of Cape Central High School and then attended Southeast Missouri State Teacher's College. ...

Rodger Self(01/13/09)ANNISTON -- Rodger Charles Self, 61, died Jan. 12, 2009, at the John Cochran VA Medical Center in St. Louis. Born Aug. 21, 1947, in the Deventer community of Mississippi County, to the late Charles and Nadine Armer Self Jr., he lived in Mississippi County his entire life. ...

Beatrice Campbell(01/12/09)DEXTER -- Beatrice Campbell, 86, died Jan. 9, 2009, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born Nov. 10, 1922, at Fisk, to the late Irving Osbern and Mary Ellen Wilson Bland, she had worked as a bookkeeper and was a member of the Second General Baptist Church in Dexter...

Rhonda White(01/12/09)DEXTER -- Rhonda Marie Payne White, 46, died at 9:47 p.m. Jan. 9, 2009 at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born Dec. 22, 1962, in Sikeston, to Barbara Scott Belt of Dexter and the late James Payne, she was a home healthcare nurse and of the Baptist faith...

Gene Bittle(01/12/09)SIKESTON -- Gene Edward Bittle, 82, died Jan. 11, 2009 at Hunter Acres Caring Center in Sikeston. Born Aug. 7, 1926 in St. Louis, son of the late Frank and Fannie Bittle, he had worked as a pin setter mechanic for 27 years and was a veteran of the U.S. Army, having served during World War II...

Roger Self(01/12/09)ANNISTON -- Roger Self, 61, died at 5:45 a.m. Jan. 12, 2009, at the John J. Cochran Veterans Hospital in St. Louis.
Arrangements are incomplete with the McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.

Herschel Gilpin(01/09/09)COMMERCE -- Herschel O'Dell Gilpin, 84, died Jan. 7, 2009, in a farming accident near Oran. Born July 3, 1924, in McClure, Ill., to the late David and Thelma McClenahan Gilpin, he was raised by his aunt and uncle, William and Ruth Etherton. He was a self-employed farmer in the Commerce area. ...

Mark Sides(01/09/09)CHAFFEE -- Mark Robert Sides, 18, died at 2:05 p.m. Jan. 7, 2009, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born July 30, 1990, in Sikeston, to Francesca "Franny" Metz and Mark Lawrence Sides of Chaffee, he was a student at Parkview State School in Cape Girardeau and a member of St. Ambrose Catholic Church in Chaffee...

Catherine Davidson(01/09/09)EAST PRAIRIE -- Catherine Davidson, 73, died at 7:35 a.m. Jan. 7, 2009, at her home. Born Oct. 5, 1935, in Keiser, Ark., to the late Lubie H. and Manie Lou Davis Davidson, she lived most of her life in Mississippi County. Survivors include: two daughters and sons-in-law, Diane and Gary Johnson of Hendersonville and Shirley and Richard Reed of Bald Knob, Ark.; three brothers, Willie Joe Davidson, Stanley Davidson and Paul Gene Davidson of East Prairie; three sisters and brothers-in-law, Lucille and Paul Scott of Mt. ...

Tubbs Smith(01/09/09)EAST PRAIRIE -- Larry Lynden "Tubbs" Smith, 64, died at 5:30 a.m. Jan. 8, 2009, at his home. Born Oct. 23, 1944, at Indianapolis, he was the son of the late J.T. Smith and Helen Evans Weeks. A U.S. Army veteran serving in the Vietnam war, he lived most of his life in Mississippi County were he was a truck driver for the Farm Products Co. in East Prairie...

Woodrow Pearson(01/08/09)COMMERCE -- Woodrow Pearson, 90, died Jan. 5, 2009, at Hunter Acres Caring Center in Sikeston. Born July 5, 1918, in Melvin, Ala., son of Verma Pearson of Melvin and the late Coleman Pearson, he was a farmer and member of St. James AME Church in Cape Girarardeau...

Robert C. Adams(01/08/09)DEXTER -- Robert C. Adams, 80, died Jan. 5, 2009, at his home. Born June 1, 1929 at Limestone, Ark., son of the late Floyd Adams and Nannie Brown Adams, he was the office manager for Averett and Son Implement and ProAg in Dexter for over 40 years. A veteran of the United States Army, he had served during the Korean War...

Catherine Davidson(01/08/09)EAST PRAIRIE -- Catherine Davidson, 73, died at 7 a.m. Jan. 7, 2009, at her home.
Arrangements are incomplete with Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie.

Larry Smith(01/08/09)EAST PRAIRIE -- Larry Tubbs Smith died at 5:30 a.m. Jan. 8, 2009, at his home.
Arrangements are incomplete with Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie.

Dub Chism(01/08/09)SPRINGFIELD -- William "Dub" Chism passed away January 6, 2009. He was born in Sikeston on Oct. 11, 1930, to Barney and Mabel Chism. After graduating from Sikeston High School, Dub joined the Navy. While home on leave he married Melba Clark on Aug. 19, 1952. ...

John Johnson(01/08/09)SIKESTON -- John Paul Johnson, 44, formerly of Mississippi County, died at 6:45 a.m. Jan. 7, 2009, at his home. Born May 29, 1964, in East Prairie, to the late John Wesley and Thelma Mae Huff Johnson, he lived in Sikeston for the past several year and was a logistics manager for Ingram Barge Co. in Paducah, Ky...

Charles DeRoush(01/07/09)GREELEY, Colo. -- Charles Edgar DeRoush died at 10:05 a.m. Dec. 24, 2008, after a short battle with cancer. Born July 3, 1940, in Sikeston, to the late Charles Edgar "Eddie" and Lorene Harris DeRoush , he attended school in Sikeston until his senior year. He graduated from Grayridge, Mo., in 1959. He performed with his own country music band and was an actor and stuntman, performing under the name of Bob West, for movies and television shows...

Maxine McGee(01/07/09)SIKESTON -- Margaret Maxine McGee, 79, died at 10:03 p.m. Jan. 4, 2009, at her home. Born May 3, 1929, in Sikeston, to the late Robert and Gertrude Casteel Lane, she was a legal secretary and a homemaker. A member of Concordia Luther Church, she also belonged to the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod since Jan. 29, 1956...

Eugene Harper(01/07/09)MOREHOUSE -- Eugene Raymond Harper, 83, died Jan. 5, 2009, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born April 23, 1925, in Visalia, Calif., to the late Henry E. and Ortie Reynolds Harper, he had lived most of his life in the Morehouse area where he was raised by his uncle, Sam Robey. He was retired from the Himmelburger-Harrison Furniture Manufacturing Co. in Morehouse and was a veteran of the U.S. Army serving during World War II and the Korean War...

Robert C. Adams(01/07/09)DEXTER -- Robert C. Adams, 80, died Jan. 5, 2009, at his home. Born June 1, 1929 at Limestone, Ark., son of the late Floyd Adams and Nannie Brown Adams, he was the office manager for Averett and Son Implement and ProAg in Dexter for over 40 years. A veteran of the United States Army, he had served during the Korean War...

Imogene Wheeler(01/07/09)SIKESTON -- Imogene Patrick Wheeler, 90, formerly of Bell City, died Jan. 5, 2009, at her daughter's home in Sikeston. Born April 3, 1918, at Indianapolis, to the late Clarence and Anna Jessup Patrick, she was a homemaker. She was a member of the Bell City United Methodist Church and the Order of the Eastern Star...

Valerie Dockery(01/07/09)POPLAR BLUFF -- Valerie Denise Dockery, 40, died Jan. 3, 2009, at the Poplar Bluff Regional Hospital. Born May 24, 1968, in Dexter, to Martha Cook Simon of Parma and the late G.L. Jones,, she had lived in the Poplar Bluff area most of her life and was of the Baptist belief...

Bayless Taylor(01/07/09)DUDLEY -- Bayless Earnest "Sonny" Taylor Jr., 80, died Jan. 6, 2009, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Born Oct. 15, 1928, in Jacksonville, Ark., son of the late Bayless and Alma Taylor, he was a veteran of World War II and an active member and trustee of the Liberty Hill General Baptist Church in Aid. ...

John Fuchs(01/06/09)SIKESTON -- John William Fuchs Sr., 56, died at 7:24 p.m. Jan. 4, 2009 at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Nov. 25, 1952, in Cape Girardeau, to the late Narcisse Edward Fuchs Jr. and Elizabeth Vaughan Bowman Fuchs. He attended St. Francis Xavier Elementary School, Sikeston Public Schools and graduated from Chaminade College Preparatory School in St. Louis in 1971. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Mississippi in Oxford in 1975...

Norma Wilson(01/06/09)DEXTER -- Norma E. Sells Wilson, 93, died Jan. 5, 2009, at her home. Born Aug. 7, 1915, in Gideon, daughter of the late William W. and Ethel Deckard Whelchel, she was a member of the Apostolic Pentecostal Church in Dexter and a homemaker. On Oct. 23, 1932, in Corning, Ark., she married Wesley S. Sells who preceded her in death on Nov. 2, 1989. On Sept. 9, 1995, in Dexter, she married Cecil H. Wilson who survives of the home...

Ralph Thurston(01/06/09)DEXTER -- Ralph G. Thurston, 76, died Jan. 4, 2009, at his home. Born July 5, 1932, in Bernie, son of the late Walter and Ora Deck Thurston, he was a retired engineer for local clothing manufacturers and a U.S. Army veteran. On Oct. 5, 1979, at Bell City, he married Marge Heigle who survives of the home...

L.J. Harwood Sr.(01/06/09)CANALOU -- L.J. Harwood Sr., 82, died Jan. 4, 2009, at the Sells Close to Home Nursing Center in Matthews. Born May 4, 1926, in Center Ridge, Ark., to the late Perd and Annie Hill Harwood, he had lived in the Canalou area most of his life. He retired as a laborer from the Gemeinhardt Grain Elevator, was a member of the Church of Christ, and was a veteran of the U.S. Navy serving during World War II...

Fred Harmon Jr.(01/06/09)PORTAGEVILLE -- Fred Albert Harmon Jr., 84 died Jan. 5, 2009, at his home in Portageville. Born Aug. 21, 1924, at Lamar, Ark., to the late Fred Albert and Alberta Bradley Harmon Sr., he was retired from the University of Missouri Delta Center and Noranda Aluminum. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Portageville and a U.S. Army and Air Force veteran of World War II, serving in the Philippines...

Vosie McCain(01/06/09)LILBOURN -- Vosie D. McCain, 93, died Jan. 4, 2009, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikesotn. Born Feb. 22, 1915, in Mount Judea, Ark., she was the daughter of the late John and Arizonia Freeman Reddell. Her husband, Edgar McCain, preceded her in death...

Robert Adams(01/06/09)DEXTER -- Robert C. Adams, 79, died Jan. 5, 2009, at his home.
Arrangements are incomplete with the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter.

Imogene Wheeler(01/06/09)SIKESTON -- Imogene Wheeler, 90, died Jan. 5, 2009, at her daughter's home in Sikeston.
Arrangements are incomplete with Morgan Funeral Home of Advance.

Gus Murphy Jr.(01/05/09)NEW MADRID -- Gus C. Murphy Jr., 77, died Jan. 4, 2009, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Born Jan. 12, 1931, in New Madrid, to the late Gus Murphy Sr. and Ercie Taber Murphy, he was a veteran of the Korean War, having served with the U.S. Air Force. He was a retired iron worker of the St. Louis Local Union, a member of the American Legion and a retired commercial fisherman...

Mary Taylor(01/05/09)DIEHLSTADT -- Mary Virginia Taylor, 87, died at 2:30 a.m. Jan. 4, 2009 at the Miner Nursing Center. She was born May 10, 1921 in McLellon, Ark. to the late Len Cephus and Edna Lewis Woods Allen. She had lived Mississippi and Scott counties most of her life and had been a member of the Church of God of Prophecy since 1941...

John Fuchs(01/05/09)SIKESTON - John W. Fuchs Sr., 56, died at 7:24 p.m. Jan. 4, 2009, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.
Nunnelee Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements, which are incomplete.

Norma Wilson(01/05/09)DEXTER -- Norma Emilie Sells Wilson, 93, died Jan. 5, 2009, at her home.
Arrangements are incomplete with the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter.

Stephen Austin(01/05/09)CHARLESTON -- Stephen Bruce Austin, age 44, died Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009, at his home in Charleston. He was born Nov. 12, 1964 in Cairo, Ill. to Bruce Raymond and Myrtle "Sisser" Goodin Austin who survive of Charleston. He lived in Charleston most of his life, where he was a 1983 graduate of Charleston High School; and had attended the University of Missouri Medical School in Kansas City and Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau...

Margaret Schneider(01/05/09)EAST PRAIRIE -- Margaret Evelyn Emory Schneider, 94, died at 12:55 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009, at the East Prairie Nursing Center. She was born July 24, 1914 in Mississippi County to the late Charles Moore and Maggie Elizabeth McElmurry Emory. She descended from pioneer farming families Emory, Crockett, Tate and McElmurry who settled in Mississippi County in the 1800s. ...

Glenn Ward(01/04/09)SCOTT CITY - Glenn Ward, 53, died Jan. 2, 2009, at his home in Scott City.
Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements which are incomplete.

Margaret Schneider(01/04/09)EAST PRAIRIE - Margaret Emory Schneider, 94, died at 12:55 a.m. Jan. 3, 2009, at the East Prairie Nursing Center. Visitation will begin at 1 p.m. Monday at the McMIkle Funeral Home in Charleston where services are scheduled at 3 p.m. Monday, Burial will be at the IOOF Cemetery in Charleston...

Jean Nall(01/04/09)CHAFFEE - Jean Nall, 74, formerly of Benton and East Prairie, died at 8 a.m. Jan. 2, 2009, at the Chaffee Nursing Center. Born March 27, 1934, in Mississippi County to Howard Lee Harr Adkisson of East Prairie and the late Robert Wesley Adkisson, she lived in Benton several years before moving back to East Prairie, then in June 2008 moved to Chaffee...

Bill Mangum(01/04/09)DEXTER -- William "Bill" Mangum, 79, died Jan. 2, 2009, at his home. Born Jan. 29, 1929, at Blytheville, Ark., to the late Roscoe Conklin and Francis Louise Burton Mangum, he had lived in Stoddard County since 1957. He was retired as a street superintendent for the city of Bloomfield and was a member of the New Bethel General Baptist Church and the Bloomfield Saddle Club...

Naomi Parr(01/04/09)MOREHOUSE -- Naomi Ruth Parr, 75, died Jan. 1, 2009, at her home. Born Oct. 3, 1933, in Mississippi, to the late Rev. James O. and Pearl Bell Fitzpatrick Casey, she was of the Pentecostal belief. On July 27, 1950, in Blytheville, Ark., she married Russell Parr who preceded her in death on June 1, 2002...

Virginia Learue(01/04/09)SIKESTON - Virginia "Gin" Learue, 81, surrounded by family and friends went home to meet her Lord on Jan. 2, 2009. She was born June 28, 1927, in the Bridges Community near Charleston to the late Ulus and Stella McKinley Harper. She worked at Brown Shoe Company in Charleston and Learue and McKinnie's Big Star in Miner. She was a lifelong member of Bement Baptist Church, where she served as a Sunday school teacher for many years before failing health...

Jackie Hicks(01/02/09)BERTRAND -- Jackie Marshall Hicks, 73, died at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 31, 2008, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Born July 24, 1935, in Diehlstadt, to the late Luchen Marshall and Leona Brooks Hicks, he lived his entire life in Mississippi County. He began a lifelong career in construction with his father-in-law, Harvey Lee Jobe of Jobe Construction, and in 1987 went to work for his son, Steve Hicks of the Hicks Construction company, until his retirement. ...

Mary Ann Curtis(01/02/09)ORAN -- Mary Ann Curtis, 72, died at 1:40 a.m. Jan. 1, 2009, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Born July 5, 1936, at Chaffee, she was the daughter of the late Robert J. and Mary "Lena" Griffin Margrabe. She had been a school bus driver for the Oran and Rawls County school districts and for the past 16 years had been a shuttle bus driver for Southeast Missouri State University. She was a member of the Guardian Angel Catholic Church in Oran...

Naomi Parr(01/02/09)MOREHOUSE -- Naomi Parr died Jan. 1, 2009, at her home.
Arrangements are incomplete at the Ponder Funeral Home.

Mary Ancell(01/02/09)SIKESTON -- Mary Dover Ancell, 88, died at 1:05 p.m. Dec. 31, 2008, at the Sikeston Convalescent Center. Born June 3, 1920, in Sikeston to the late Charles and Kathleen Druelinger Dover, she was a member of the St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Sikeston...

Erladene Sullivan(01/02/09)SIKESTON -- Lucille Erladene Sullivan, 84, died Dec. 31, 2008, at the Sells Rest Home in Matthews. Born Nov. 24, 1924, at Lamar, Ark., to the late Rufus Ewell and Viola May Russell Pearson, she was of the Baptist belief and a member of the Crossroads Community Church in Sikeston. She worked as a med-tech for Shufitt's Nursing Home for 22 and a half years...

Donald Rievley(01/02/09)CHAFFEE -- Donald J. Rievley, 68, died at 12:16 a.m. Dec. 31, 2008, at his home. Born Sept. 13, 1940, in Chaffee, to the late Philip Elmer and Leota Foster Rievley, he was a supervisor for Bunny Bread in Cape Girardeau. He was later a retired lead person at Gilster Mary Lee in Perryville...

Ozie Hatton(01/02/09)EAST PRAIRIE -- Ozie Mae Hatton, 80, died at 8:10 a.m. Jan. 1, 2009, at the East Prairie Nursing Center. Born April 29, 1929, in Mississippi County, to the late Frank and Victoria Bass Holmes, she lived all her life in Mississippi County and was of the Baptist belief...

David Bell(01/02/09)MATTHEWS - David Crockett Bell, 69, died at 9:57 p.m. Dec. 31, 2008, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born Feb. 19, 1939, to the late James Crockett and Lillian Avis Buchanan Bell, he served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War and was affiliated with the Primitive Baptist Church...

Shirley Duncan(01/02/09)ST. CLAIR -- Shirley Eona Duncan, 77, formerly of St. Louis, died Dec. 31, 2008, at St. John's Hospital in Washington. Born Jan. 10, 1934, in St. Louis, to the late Melvin and Ruth Huber Fetters, she was a homemaker. In 1971, she moved to St. Clair where she was a member of the First Baptist Church...

Frank Roberts(01/02/09)MOREHOUSE -- Thomas Franklin "Frank" Roberts, 70, died at 11:33 a.m. Dec. 31, 2008, at the Miner Nursing Center in Miner. Born Nov. 27, 1938, in Moody, to the late Chester and Eva Douglas Roberts, he had been employed by the Missouri state highway department in Harrisonville and Coca Cola Bottling Co. ...

Thelma Jean Nall(01/02/09)CHAFFEE -- Thelma Jean Nall, 74, formerly of East Prairie and Benton, died at 8 a.m. Jan. 2, 2009.
Arrangements are incomplete with Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie.